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Welcome to the OSA ISP Resource Page 
Already used the ISP software? Take a quick survey to tell us what you think.
 | March 2, 2009: OSA is pleased to announce the publication of an Optics Express ISP (Interactive Science Publishing) special issue on Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) in Ophthalmolgy, with guest editors James G. Fujimoto (MIT), Wolfgang Drexler (Cardiff University), Joel S. Schuman (University of Pittsburgh), and Christoph K. Hitzenberger (Medical University of Vienna).
ISP—Interactive Science Publishing—represents a new paradigm for the publication of original source data. The ISP infrastructure gives authors the publishing software and readers the viewing and analysis tools for integrating very large datasets published in conjunction with a traditional text-based journal article. |
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Readers
Readers of ISP articles will need to obtain the OSA ISP software and help manual. To learn about software licensing options, terms of use, and other details, read more . . .
- Already used the ISP software? Take a quick survey to tell us what you think.
Authors
Authors writing for the OSA ISP special issues should obtain the OSA ISP software, help manual, and ISP Author Tutorial. To learn about software licensing, packaging and submission, and other details, read more . . .
Software
OSA ISP is an image viewing application developed by OSA—The Optical Society—in cooperation with Kitware, Inc., and the National Library of Medicine. The software allows interactive viewing of a wide range of 2D and 3D image data formats including DICOM, TIFF, and JPEG images. Authors can use the tool to build custom views of image data that can be saved, integrated with peer-reviewed articles, and shared with readers through the OSA journals.
Download OSA ISP software (version 2.2 released 27 Feb. 2009 — see ISP 2.2 Release Notes)
- Windows
- Mac PowerPC
- Mac Intel i386 (Does my Mac have an Intel or PowerPC processor?)
- OSA ISP Help Manual
Access to full OSA ISP authoring functionality is freely available for 30 days following activation. After 30 days, the software reverts to reader mode. In reader mode, one can interactively view data associated with OSA ISP articles but cannot load other data or use the authoring tools. Authors who need an extended license to use for preparing an OSA journal article should contact OSA staff.
MIDAS is the searchable online repository of the datasets and data descriptions associated with an ISP article. Through MIDAS, readers can access authors’ source data and custom data views. See OSA ISP FAQ for more information.
Background
OSA—The Optical Society—is working with the National Library of Medicine and Kitware, Inc., to provide long-term data archiving and convenient software for preparing, publishing, and interacting with three-dimensional image datasets (and other data types) associated with peer-reviewed journal articles. OSA’s Interactive Science Publishing (ISP) project will go live with special issues published in OSA journals in 2008 and 2009. With the ISP project, OSA continues its tradition as a pioneer in online publishing in the physical sciences.
